and among those who narrated from him were al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, Ibn al-Sharqī and his brother, Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād, Abū Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl, and many others; likewise Muslim—though not in his Ṣaḥīḥ—and Abū ʿAwānah.
Al-Nasāʾī said: “Reliable.”(1)
He died in Muḥarram of the year 258 AH, and multitudes joined his funeral procession.
168 – Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Khālid ibn Sālim al-Naysābūrī * (M, D, S, Q)
The imam, the trustworthy ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Sulamī al-Naysābūrī, nicknamed Ḥamdān; he was the grandfather of the ascetic Ismāʿīl ibn Nujayd, the compiler of that well-known fascicle.
He was born in 182 AH.
His grandson Ibn Nujayd said: “My grandfather Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf was an Azdī whose mother belonged to the Banū Sulaym, so the appellation ‘Sulamī’ prevailed.”
I say: In his day he was the leading ḥadith scholar of Khurāsān.
He heard ḥadith from al-Jārūd ibn Yazīd, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim Qayṣar, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṭanāfisī, Mūsā ibn Dāwūd, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and their contemporaries.